“[Cloud seeding] campaigns usually focus on just a few target clouds and would not have the ability to impact a large area,” Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist and manager of the Wisconsin Environmental Mesonet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email. “The amount of energy required to create a complex of thunderstorms and heavy rain is so high that it outweighs the small addition of silver iodide or other seed material.”
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